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Rupertology
Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires by David Folkenflik PublicAffairs, 2013, 384 pp., $27.99 Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has been the subject of a staggering 29 books, as well as...
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The Eclectic Brilliance of Edmund Phelps
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change by Edmund S. Phelps Princeton University Press, 2013, 392 pp., $29.95 With his latest book, Mass Flourishing, Edmund...
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Gendered Orientalism
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod Harvard University Press, 2013, 336 pp., $30.25 How is it that even though we Americans know through repeated example that the road to hell is paved...
View ArticleThe Art of the #fail
The Upside of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle Viking, 2014, 320 pp., $27.95 Learning from failure is increasingly in the zeitgeist. The topic has appeared in sources...
View ArticleThe Compromise Candidate
The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh by Sanjaya Baru Viking, 2014, 320 pp., $44.75 Manmohan Singh would be the first to admit that his rise to the helm of the...
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The Electric Coachman
Jimi Hendrix: Miami Pop Festival Sony Legacy (CD), $11.88 The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hear My Train A Comin’Sony Legacy (Blu-ray), $24.98 Having first discovered the wares of rock and roll’s pantheon...
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Gospel Truths
An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Americaby Joseph BottumImage Books, 2014320 pp., $25 There is nothing new in the claim that today’s American liberalism amounts to a secular...
View ArticleGilding the Small Screen
In January 2012, David Remnick moderated a panel sponsored by the New Yorker titled “Is Television the New Cinema?” Variations on that question have also been posed by the Los Angeles Times and...
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What’s God Got to Do with Religion?
My Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believerby Christian WimanFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, 192 pp., $24 Religion Without Godby Ronald DworkinHarvard University Press, 2013192 pp., $17.95...
View ArticleThe Fateful Deception Behind a Century-Long Grudge Match
Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China’s Long Revolution by Paul French e-Penguin, 2014, 81 pp., $3.38 On November 18th, 1918 Peking was given over to riotous celebration. The...
View ArticleA Whig History of Pop Music
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé by Bob Stanley W.W. Norton, 2014, 624 pp., $29.95 If you’ve ever seen the Jim Jarmusch film Mystery Train (1989), you’ve witnessed...
View ArticleAsia’s Dark Horse
Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century By Hamish McDonald Black Inc, 2014, 312 pp., $27 For decades, Indonesia has been one of those countries that hovered on the periphery, breaking into the...
View ArticleThe Melody Man
All the songs mentioned here can be heard in “The Song Is Kern” www.broadwaytomainstreet.com Air date: May 18, 2014 Even among the tempered hopes of 1,200 musical theater fans, expectations ran low....
View ArticleGreek to Me
Plato and Aristotle were famously different in their temperaments and political thought. Plato was the radical revolutionary; channeling Socrates, his Republic presented a template of an ideal...
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Did Eichmann Think?
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth Knopf, 2014, 608 pp., $35 Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer is the new English...
View ArticleThe Art of Argument
There’s no shortage of courtroom drama on both the big and small screen these days, but Arguendo, recently staged by the Elevator Repair Service at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC, might...
View ArticleDrunk History
America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog ShopsChristine SismondoOxford University Press (reprint edition), 2014, 336 pp., $16.95 Moonshine: A Cultural...
View ArticleTwo Princes
Unlike Machiavelli’s Il Principe, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince is not on the standard reading list of policy analysts and international relations scholars. But this other princely book...
View ArticleBury My Art at Wounded Knee
Few art forms are as self-consciously nostalgic as the platinum photograph. The Instagram filter of its day, platinum printing was used at the end of the 19th century to convey a stylized, distant...
View ArticleCrazy in Velvet
My Crazy Century: A Memoir by Ivan Klíma, translated by Craig Cravens Grove Press, 2013, 534 pp., $30 Czechoslovakia’s last Ambassador to Washington, Rita Klímová, used to call it “the question”: How...
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